General manager Ryan Grigson faced a daunting challenge this offseason. Nearly one-third of the Indianapolis Colts salary cap is tied up in “dead” money, prorated bonuses not yet counted against the cap but paid to players such as Peyton Manning, Dallas Clark, Gary Brackett and Joseph Addai who are no longer with the team.

Grigson couldn’t go about rebuilding the Colts by spending. He had to go about it by digging.

“I feel like digging is one of my strong suits, digging and not caring what anybody else thinks or what the perception is,” said Grigson, whose team this morning begins a three-day minicamp in which quarterback Andrew Luck will participate, whether or not he is signed.

About Todd Smith

Todd Smith is a part-time sportswriter who spends too much time arguing on Twitter. What he really loves is eating poorly and watching football. He got his first Colts t-shirt in 1984 shortly after the Mayflower trucks arrived and has never given up on his hometown team.
He also still holds to the belief that Kordell Stewart stepped out of the end zone and thus cheated the Colts.